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Emerging markets exhibited record levels of smartphone growth in Q3’14, while mature regions like Western Europe continued to decline. Smartphone sales were up 20.3% YoY, to 301 million units – balanced by falling feature phone sales, with the result that total mobile phone sales to end users in Q3 were flat, says Gartner. Total smartphone … Read more
Last week (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 49), talks surrounding the second phase of the International Technology Agreement (ITA-II) were said to have stalled over a disagreement between China and South Korea. Reuters now reports that the talks, which aim to update the 17-year old agreement, have fallen through because of the deadlock. “The participants … Read more
Vixs Systems Inc. narrowed its third quarter net loss to $2.9 million from $5.1 million in Q3 a year earlier, while turnover improved to $10.7 million from $7.3 million in the previous year. For the first nine months of the year, Vixs Systems’ net loss was down to $11.8 million from $25 million for the … Read more
Imagination Technologies Group plc has released its half yearly results, posting a net loss of £10.3 million ($16.1 million) on turnover of £82.2 million ($128.6 million), which compares with a net loss in the first half of last year of £1.1 million ($1.7 million) on turnover of £85.2 million ($133.4 million).
Adobe has released its fourth quarter and full year results, posting a net profit of $73.3 million on turnover of $1.1 billion in the final quarter, which compares with a net profit of $65.3 million on turnover of $1 billion in Q4 of last year. Adobe’s net profit for the year was down 12.5% at … Read more
First, I want to set out our plans for the holiday season. There will be a break next week (26th December) and the next full issue of the newsletter will be on 2nd January, so this is the last issue of the year. We always promise “a minimum of 48 issues per year” and this … Read more
JCDecaux has announced plans to install eight new 80″ LCD displays in St. Pancras station, London. The screens, with 1920 x 1080 resolution, will complement JCDecaux’s existing Transvision large-format signage in St. Pancras.
JCDecaux Ireland has begun the rollout of a digital advertising network in St Stephen’s Green shopping centre in Dublin. It is one of six shopping centres that are part of the rollout; the others are Frascati in Dublin (this month), Eyre Square Galway, MacDonagh Junction Kilkenny (late January) Douglas Village Cork and Scotch Hall Drogheda … Read more
XOEye Technologies has raised $1.5 million in a Series A funding round. The money will help to transition XOEye from a research and development operation into a fully operational company. XOEye Technologies offers a cloud-based mobile device management platform that this year was extended to include a wearable safety glass headset. This device claims to … Read more
It has been reported that touch panel maker Wintek is to withdraw from touch panel manufacturing and switch to LED lighting and biotech food products. The reports came after Wintek announced that it would be laying-off a further 2,360 employees, having last week cut 610 jobs (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 48). The company is … Read more
With video streaming being one of the hottest topics in the home entertainment world these days, the lawsuit of Max Sound Corporation against Google over video compression software has raised one or two eyebrows. This lawsuit follows a preliminary injunction against Shenzhen KTC Technology Co. Ltd and Pact Informatique SA, France against selling its Android-based … Read more
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